Saturday, June 21, 2014

Kansas city shuts down boy's 'little free library'

Good fences
may make good neighbors, but little free libraries in the front yard may
illicit complaints from them.

A 9-year-old
Kansas boy was forced to remove a small community bookshelf from his front yard
after local officials threatened to issue his family a citation because of
their illegal "detached structure."

"They
were going to charge us $25 a day, so we took it down," the boy's father,
Brian Collins, told TODAY.

He and his
wife helped their son, Spencer, put up the bookshelf on Mother's Day hoping to
"encourage literacy, reading and community."

The little
library, which was made by the boy's grandfather, was as big as an oversized
birdhouse and had “take a book, leave a book” instructions taped to the front
door. The bookshelf sat next to a park bench intended to provide a spot for
readers to enjoy their books.READ MORE !